System and method for quota management in a cloud platform environment

A method of providing management of quota in a cloud computing environment, comprising:

• providing, at a computer, a cloud environment that supports provisioning of enterprise applications;
• providing a tenant manager component, which enables configuration and management of tenants within the cloud environment,
• wherein the tenants utilize services and resources within the cloud environment, and
• wherein the tenant manager enables quotas to be associated with one or more tenants restricting their provisioning or usages of the services and resources;
• and
• providing an elasticity manager component, which determines usage of the cloud environment services and resources by the one or more tenants, and provides usage information to the tenant manager, for use in managing the one or more tenants in accordance with their quotas.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium, including instructions stored thereon which when read and executed by one or more computers cause the one or more computers to perform the steps comprising:

• providing, at a computer, a cloud environment that supports provisioning of enterprise applications;
• providing a tenant manager component, which enables configuration and management of tenants within the cloud environment,
• wherein the tenants utilize services and resources within the cloud environment, and
• wherein the tenant manager enables quotas to be associated with one or more tenants restricting their provisioning or usages of the services and resources;
• and
• providing an elasticity manager component, which determines usage of the cloud environment services and resources by the one or more tenants, and provides usage information to the tenant manager, for use in managing the one or more tenants in accordance with their quotas.